Francesco Benozzo

Francesco Benozzo

Francesco Benozzo is a songwriter and harp-player from Northern Italy, with several albums released in the last years.
He usually combines original compositions with traditional songs orally collected in the mountains of the Apennines, but has also worked on medieval Welsh poems and music, anarchist traditional songs from 19th century, on experimental landscape compositions, and on the interactions between music and contemporary poetry and performing arts. Read more on Last.fm

Francesco Benozzo is a songwriter and harp-player from Northern Italy, with several albums released in the last years.
He usually combines original compositions with traditional songs orally collected in the mountains of the Apennines, but has also worked on medieval Welsh poems and music, anarchist traditional songs from 19th century, on experimental landscape compositions, and on the interactions between music and contemporary poetry and performing arts.
Winner of a “Special Mention” at the Edinburgh Folk Awards in 2004 and 2006, he has recently performed with the Nobel Prize for Literature Wislawa Szymborska, and with the Italian singer Bernardo Lanzetti (Premiata Forneria Marconi).
His last album, "Terracqueo", produced with Tutl, has been judged “best album of the month” (May 2009) by the US Music Magazine “RootsWorld” and reached the final stages at the celebrated Italian “Premio Tenco”. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply..